Nigeria's Economic and Financial Crimes Commission

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Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2014 3:18 pm

An interesting development recently arose in one of my baits and I just needed to vent for a few minutes...

In an attempt to prove that he is a legitimate lender, one of my lads just sent me the EFCC document attached below. Since I had a few minutes to spare, I thought I'd check out the real EFCC website (https://efccnigeria.org/efcc/) and see what they had to to say about our friends, and I have a few thoughts on what I found:

1. Wow. Whereas I thought my lad has just doctored something up, that logo in my fake doc is actually the EFCC's real logo. That's just atrocious.

2. The EFCC has a task force named Special Control Unit against Money Laundering, abbreviated to SCUML. Couldn't they have just referred to it as "Money Management" and given us a SCUMM acronym?

3. And here is the one that really honked me off. If you check out the "Scams and Safety" section (https://efccnigeria.org/efcc/index.php/scams-safety), you'll find this little gem:

Quote:

To a considerable extent, most scams are promoted by the greed of victims. (emphasis added) For instance, a person who has not entered for a lottery ought not to expect to win yet people, out of greed, believe they can be winners in a game they have not played! So, the starting point is for people to check the appetite for unmerited windfalls.

And therein lies the problem we are facing. When even the governmental org investigating our lads thinks that it is the *victims* that are at fault, and not the scammers, it is impossible to believe that they are going to make a serious attempt at enforcing the laws and punishing the scammers.

Baiting Guru Joined: 10 Oct 2010 Posts: 3876

the problem with a lot of scams is indeed that they try to trigger the victims greed. loan, lottery, NOK... and that's why scam victims often refuse to talk about what happened, because other people laugh about them.

but there are enough formats that do not trigger greed, but the will to help. orphans, puppies, red cross (the scam version, that someone asks for money for the red cross) and so on.

the EFCC, from what you wrote here, is an agency that tries to deal with scam, without admitting that they are scumbags from nigeria. and I'm not sure if that is helpful.

besides: a few weeks ago, I mentioned scambaiting to someone who really helped me with a few things. and she immediately told me, that she became a victim once. that was a shock for me, because that was the first time for me ever to talk to an actual victim (the other one smelled it soon enough). okay, she was victim of a type of scam, that is virtually unbaitable. her box was hacked, and the scammer pumped mails to everyone in her contact list that she is stranded somewhere and in need of money.

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